More schools needed to meet Downtown residential growthWhile Downtowns restless students wait as the last few days of the school year drag on before summer vacation, it is a natural time to think about where their yet-to-be born siblings and their soon-to-be neighbors and friends will be going to school.

Hollywood returns to Tribecas Enchanted cornerBy Wickham BoyleOnce again the corner of N. Moore St. and W. Broadway, a tiny lot, usually used as overflow for parked cars, has been transformed into a movie set. There must be some sort of magic whammy at the confluence of these streets because time after time Hollywood transforms this plot of land.

Talking PointLetters to the editorUnder CoverPolice BlotterThe Penny PostOpen letter to grownupsBy Andrei CoodrescuThe trouble with being a grownup is that youre always called on to fix messes, your own and other peoples. In the process of doing that, you make more messes. At some point, there are so many messes you need other grownups, more competent ones, to clean them up.

NewsAnd then there were none By Josh RogersThirty-eight years after the Battery Park City Authority was created by the state Legislature, the agency on Wednesday designated Milstein Properties to develop the neighborhoods last two sites.

B.P.C.A. looks to expand eastBy Josh RogersOn the day the Battery Park City Authority designated its last two development sites, its chairperson told Downtown Express the agency wants to take over the financially-stalled Greenwich Street South project to add parks and better walkways just to the east.

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Deutsche delayed; Silverstein gets more bondsBy Ronda KaysenThe rebuilding of the World Trade Center faced another setback this week, as the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. was forced to delay the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building until later this summer.

NEST is hardly empty, parents and students protestBy Anindita DasguptaOn May 24, Wall St. stood divided. From 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., more than 500 parents and children crowded the street facing the Cipriani Club. Parents waved signs and chanted, Save our NEST! while making sure their children didnt run into the street. Children beat pots, blew whistles and shouted at cars passing by to honk in protest.

Pace student killed in taxi crash By Anindita Dasgupta and Albert AmateauThree months ago, Danielle Ricco, 20, learned that her long time dream of working for the Disney Company would finally come true. Two weeks shy of leaving for Flordia, her preparations for the selective internship were cut short by a fatal accident Sunday.

Project will drive trucks into B.P.C. By Janet KwonMore trucks will be driving into Battery Park City starting this summer as the Port Authority plans to reroute delivery traffic to build a passageway under West St.

Tribeca restaurateur blocked in E. Village ventureBy Lincoln AndersonBack in the 1980s, Bob Giraldi directed the music video for Pat Benatars Love Is a Battlefield. Today, though, the battlefield for Giraldi isnt love but E. Fourth St., where community opposition is threatening to put his upscale new gastropub, E.U., out of business before it barely has had a chance to open.

Downtowners turn eye to Peck Slip, waterfront plansBy Ronda KaysenWhile most New Yorkers hunger for a grassy, green oasis for respite, Seaport residents are the rare exception. They have no interest in changing a triangular, cobblestone swath of their neighborhood into a green, flowery park. Instead, they hope to see Peck Slip become a stony piazza that will hark back to the seafaring days of the neighborhoods watery past.

New try for reminder of Americas first White House By Ronda KaysenWhen Peter Dans was a boy during World War II he often walked with his Italian grandmother to the Pine St. post office to mail packages overseas, trekking up Cherry St. and resting beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Peripatetic gallery is on the move againBy Nicole DavisFrom brightly-lit suburban porches at night, to illuminated storefronts on dead quiet city blocks, the dozen or so paintings in Dan Witzs latest show, Up Late, at DFN Gallery, are all suggestive of that liminal period before dawn when people sleep, stores close, and bartenders announce their last call.

Underage sales, after-hours violation close FallsBy Jefferson Siegel
Last Friday afternoon police descended on The Falls, the now-notorious Lafayette St. bar where John Jay student Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive in February before she was murdered.

DowntownArts & Entertainment

In Some Girl(s), women win battle of sexesBy Scott HarrahEric McCormack spent nearly a decade playing the lovable lawyer Will Truman on Will & Grace, a groundbreaking TV sitcom that was hugely successful and also was one of the first to feature openly gay male characters. In Neil LaButes Some Girl(s), McCormacks character Guy is a far cry from the happy-go-lucky homosexual Will. McCormacks Guy is straight, self-indulgent, less than endearing, and certainly no girls best friend.

Spooked by Giacomettis Palace all these yearsBy Jerry TallmerIn a tucked-away corner of the 6th floor of the rebuilt, enlarged  dare one say edificial?  Museum of Modern Art there is one small gallery newly given over to a dozen pieces of sculpture (using the term loosely) from the Surrealist perios (1926-1934) in the life and work of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) that preceded the great, skinny, harrowed, hollowed-out figures we think of as classic Giacomettis.

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, unsung musical heroine By Michael CliveFew cultural clichés are more durable or romantic than the musician making sacrifices for art. The movies show him shivering in a Parisian garret with soot-rimmed skylights. But in real life, the setting is a cramped two-bedroom on the Lower East Side stacked with cartons of files, recordings and annotated scores.

Poet in a cage, long before GuantánamoBy Jerry TallmerIn the opening moments of a play called Treason, the poet Ezra Pound, dressed flamboyantly in cape, sombrero, flowing cravat, and ruffled shirt, speaks into a microphone at a broadcast studio in Rome in 1941. Kike Rosenfelt, he exclaims, that snotty barbarian If ever a nation produced efficient democracy it has been in Germany Eliminate Roosevelt and his Jews, or the Jews and their Roosevelt 